Bush to World: “I love me!”
If at first you don't succeed, get a bunch of GOP suckers to pony up $10-$20
MILLION a pop so you can rewrite the history of your failures into successes.
And people call Clinton arrogant. I covered this at the end of my radio show
today, but it's unfathomably hilarious.
George W. Bush is going to build — wait for it — a THINK TANK?
Cue the late night comedians. I didn't know the president reads. Who knew he had a thought in his head, let alone enough to fill a library. Bush will do for think tanks what he's done for Iraq! Serve up Stewart and Colbert, because you just
can't make this stuff up.
Irony alert on blare, boys and girls.
Bush sources with direct knowledge of library plans told the Daily News that
SMU and Bush fund-raisers hope to get half of the half billion from what they
call “megadonations” of $10 million to $20 million a pop.Bush loyalists have already identified wealthy heiresses, Arab nations and
captains of industry as potential “mega” donors and are pressing
for a formal site announcement – now expected early in the new year.“You can't ask people in Dallas for $20 million until they can be sure
the library won't be in Waco,” one Bush source noted.The rest of the cash will come from donors willing to pony up $25,000 to
$5 million.“It's a stretch,” said another source briefed on the plans. “It's
so much bigger than anything that's been tried before. But the more you have,
the more influence [on history] you can exert.” …W
library in record book
$500M center would be priciest for a Prez
“It's a stretch”?
Ya think?
Wonder where Mr. Bush will fit this little item in the telling of his presidential years. After all, it's not every day a president's kids are asked to leave a country. What a crew.
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